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Mexican biennial awards Iran’s Jamshidi

12 November 2010 20:25 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Iranian graphic designer Mohammad Jamshidi has been awarded in the cultural category of the 2010 edition of the International Poster Biennial of Mexico, APA reports quoting Press TV.

Jamshidi received the third prize of the event for the poster he designed for an exhibition on the theme of ’fear and trauma.’

Stephan Bundi from Switzerland won the first award of the cultural category while the second prize went to American artist Lance Rutter.

Iran’s Mehdi Mahdian and Mehdi Saeedi also participated in the event with two works each.

This year’s works were judged by an 11-member board of jury composed of Dora Keresztes (Hungary), Apex Lin (Taiwan), Iwona Rypesc (Poland/US), Sergio Vega (Bolivia), Luba Lukova (US), Kenya Hara (Japan), Svetlana Faldina (Russia), Finn Nygaard (Denmark), Fang Chen (China/US), Eric Olivares (Spain/Mexico) and Raquel Pelta (Spain).

Jamshidi, who was granted the honorary mention of the same contest in 2008, has displayed his works at many national and international events and received numerous awards.

The 2008 Moscow Golden Bee International Biennale of Graphic Design and the Institute of Art and Design of the Academy of China are among the centers and events which have awarded Jamshidi.

The 11th International Poster Biennial of Mexico presented works by a wide range of artists from different countries such as Canada, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Australia, Colombia, China, Chile, Denmark, Croatia, Slovenia and Cuba.